Baptist newspapers this week deign to peer into the future. While there is no unanimity as to what the future holds, for Baptist periodicals of the South a gaze forward at least offers the opportunity — if one so wishes — to lay aside the national disasters of 1863. Unlike the gloom and doom pronounced…
During this season of Confederate discontent, as white Southerners cast about for signs of hope and inspiration, heroes are desperately needed. Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s heroic boldness and bravery command much respect, yet the bitter and costly defeat at Gettysburg in July has tarnished his image. Oh for the glory days of Manassas! Either…
In the wake of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, and from the context of a firm commitment to God’s willing of the enslavement of the African race, Baptists in the Confederacy continue searching for some other acceptable reason for God not yet leading His chosen nation to victory over the evil United…